The Week Junior UK – 03 August 2019

3August 2019•The Week Junior

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n26–28 July,the first everFortniteWorld Cup

washeld in NewYork, in the US, offering the best

players in the worldachancetoshow off their skills

on the world-famous video game.

The winner of the solocompetition, 16-year-old

Kyle Giersdorf from the US, won £2.4 million. The

winners of the duoscompetition, DavidWang from

Austria and Emil BergquistPedersen from Norway,

also won £2.4 million. Jaden Ashman,a15-year-old

fromLondon,came second in the duos event and will

share£1.8 million with his tea

Dave Jong. Around £24 million

prizemoneywasonoffer,whic

the largest amount in esports

Esports is thecompetitive pla

of video games.

Fortnite isavideo game

in which 100 players are

parachuted onto an

island. They have to find

weapons and build bases,

competing with other players to see who will be

the last one standing. The game has morethan

250 millionregistered players worldwide.

Morethan 40 million people tried to qualify for

the World Cup throughaseries of onlinecompetitions.

The best 100 players wereinvited to the finals at New

York’sArthur Ashe tennis stadium, which holds 23,

spectators. The 100 finalists played sixrounds of the

game, and points wereawarded based on how long

they survived. Eleven of the finalists werefromthe UK.

menting on his victory,Giersdorf said,

want isanew desk and maybeadesk

my trophy”.Ashman says he is going

ave half of his winnings and spend

e other half onahouse for hisfamily.

However,Ashman’sfamily hasn’t

always supported his video-game

playing; his mother Lisa oncethrew

out his Xboxand snappedaheadset,

n an attempt to get him to focus on

his schoolwork instead.

IT’SANAMAZINGWEEKFOR...

APENNY-FARTHINGCYCLIST

RichardThoday,ateacher from Derbyshire,

has cycled the length of Britain onapenny-

farthing. Hereached John o’Groats from Land’s

End infour days and 12 hours, thefastest time

on the old-fashioned bike. The previousrecord

of just over five dayswasset in 1886. Thoday

raised morethan £6,000forcharity.

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Hundreds savedfrom

train trapped in flood

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mergency services in Mumbai,acity on India’s

westcoast, haverescued 1,050 passengers

fromatrain that became trapped in flooding. The

Mahalaxmi Express left Mumbai forKolhapur on

26 July butwasstranded shortly into its journey.

Thetrain raninto trouble in the town ofVangani,

after the track flooded following heavyrain. After

12 hours, the Indian Navy and the National Disaster

ResponseForce launched an operation torescue the

trapped passengers. Thecompany Indian Railways

says all passengers weresafelyremoved from the

train within five hours. Boats, diving teams and

helicopters wereused to help get people safely off

the train.Acamp with food and medical supplieswas

set up for the passengers, who got on another train to

finish their journey.

Heavyrainfall has affected many towns in India

rece ntly,because it is the monsoon season. The

monsoon isaseasonal change in the wind that

brings heavyrain during the summer to some Asian

countries. Over the past two weeksmorethan 250

people have died across India because of flooding.

ASPECIALAWARD

ASyrianrefugee has beenrecognisedfor

learningWelsh atWales’sfirst ever Nation of

Sanctuary Awards.Arefugee is someone who

has left their homecountry because ofwar

or the threat of violence. MohamadKarkoubi

leftSyria in 2015 and has been learning

Welsh sinceSeptember to help him at work.

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ABABYFLAMINGO

On 25 July,the first greater flamingo chick

in morethanfour yearswasborn at Marwell

ZooinHampshire.Zookeepers have been

trying to encourage nesting by building

artificial nests and providingasprinkler

systemforthe birds in the heat. Ross Brown,

who worksatthezoo, said 12 moreeggs had

been laid this year,compared to last year.

DIDYOU

KNOW?

In April,

PrinceH

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people werestuck.

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his trophy.

Thoday on his

penny-farthing.

Karkoubi and

his award.

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